Year: 2024

iMovie of our walk

Over the past few weeks, Ruma Wha has been collaborating with Fiona to create iMovies, enabling us to share them instantly with all our tamariki in the class and with their whanau.

The children are still working on the skill of holding the iPad in one hand and taking a photo with the other.  We will continue to work on this for the rest of the year.  It would be wonderful if you could continue to practice this skill over the school holidays.  We would love to see your holiday photos next year when your tamariki return to school and incorporate these photos into a Google Slide or iMovie.

We hope you enjoy our mini iMovie.

 

 

 

Awesome Autism Connex

 

Fantastic Frogs

This week we were focusing on the letter Ff for Frog.  Our ‘Great Book’ of the week was ‘The Wide Mouthed Frog’ which was a pop up book.  All the children enjoyed this story and created their own wide mouthed frogs with Helen during our Speech Language session.

We also created frogs with sticking plaster tongues.  We compared the tongue lengths and used the terminology of shorter and longest while partaking in this maths activity.

Check out the Alphabet and Great Books slide below.

                                                                     

 

Beautiful butterfiies!

This week we have been looking at the lifecycle of a caterpillar.

The children enjoyed exploring various texts about caterpillars and butterflies, both looking at the pictures and reading the stories together. They also participated in a range of dances, all of which they eagerly joined in with.

We then created some beautiful symmetrical butterflies with paint.  The children loved opening the page to see their butterfly emerge.

Ka pai Ruma Wha!

 

What begins with Bb?

Every week in Ruma Wha we are fortunate enough to have Fiona Waugh work with us around Digital Technologies.  For the past three weeks all of our students have been working on holding the iPad with one hand and pushing the button to take a photograph with the other hand.  We have also been working on each child correctly centering the object or person they are capturing.

This week Fiona showed us how to use iMovie.  This is our first attempt at each child recording a little clip of their peers, completing a voice over and uploading this great mahi.  Ka pai Ruma Wha!

Pp is for pigs

This week we have been finding different words in our environment that start with the letter Pp.  We took our class iPad on our daily walks and all the children found different plants to take photos of.

We also listened to stories and songs about pigs.  Our favourite rhyme/poem was ‘This Little Piggie Went to Market.’  The children all enjoyed the actions to follow this rhyme and giggled when tickled.

For our Community Outing we visited the zoo where we found two kunekune pigs and then had a wonderful time on the playground.  Again all the children practised the skill of taking a photo on the iPad of the pigs.

We hope you enjoy seeing the photos below of our pig creations.

Great Giraffes

This week Ruma Wha has been working on the Letter G and the Gl blend.

Our book of the week was Giraffes Can’t Dance.  We learned about giraffes, danced and clapped to different giraffe songs and then created a handprint giraffe for each of our wonderful tamariki.  The children all enjoyed having their whole arm painted yellow, and many chuckled as the paintbrush tickled their arms.

We hope you enjoy the photos and enjoy sharing the Google Slides together.

Flies, flies everywhere!

Welcome back to Term 4!

This week we are looking at the letter Ff and the blend Fl for flies.  It is that time of the year when these creatures begin to arrive in our homes and classrooms.

As part of our inquiry for the term we are looking at Great Books!  We are focusing on a different book every week so please feel free to look at the blog and class site and replay some of our learning which we are completing each week.

This week our text is ‘I Know an Old Lady.’  We have been reading different texts about flies and listening to a variety of songs also.  We have even linked our measurement unit with the language of long and short relating to how long our spiders thread will be in our craft activity.

 

 

 

Super Shapes

Ruma Wha has been continuing to work on different 2D shapes which we see on an everyday basis around our community.  All the tamariki have enjoyed singing a variety of shape songs as well completing fine motor shape activities of late.

Today we got each child to choose a shape they would like to colour in and we then created the same shape with coloured strips of paper.  They were focused and were able to sign that the two shapes were the same.  Ka pai Ruma Wha!

 

C is for Chef

This week Ruma Wha has been looking at the Letter Cc for Chef.

We have sung songs as well as created our own chef hats which the children proudly wore around the classroom.

For our Speech session this week Helen brought in a range of chef utensils.  All the children enjoyed investigating the different utensils as well as completing some sorting and matching activities.